Qualcomm Hexagon NPU / DSP Designer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

327337480

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > DSP Architecture and Design

Role and Responsibilities

• Reporting into Front-End RTL team

• Improve Performance, Power and Area for the next generation NPU/DSP

• Work with microarchitecture team to understand specifications and design trade offs

• Good understanding of synth, place & route, timing and power tools to validate implement, area, timing and power

• Perform Synth, Place & Route on the designs using industry standard tools ( such as RTL-Architecture/FC) for front-end study

• Work with implementation team on Floorplanning, Clock and power distribution, Place and Route and all aspects of timing improvement

• Work with power teams to analyze power and make recommendations for power reduction across architecture and gate-level design.

• Work with the IP design teams to analyze the standard cell and memory/custom hard-IP offerings and recommend usage to the FE/PD teams.

Preferred qualification

• Fast learner and highly motivated to solve technical challenges with innovation.

• Prefer 3-7+ years of design implementation experience, including: Knowledge of CPU architecture and logic design principles, physical design experience with synth, place and route, timing, power, and timing.

• Proficient in Verilog and/or System Verilog and scripting languages.

• Ability to analyze critical paths and power and guide RTL designs to optimal solutions.

• Analytical & data mining skills to draw conclusions from large amounts of data.

• Strong verbal/communication skills; ability to work effectively with various functional teams and drive task to completion.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

• 2+ years of experience with high-performance microprocessor design.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range:

$148,000.00 - $222,000.00